Brooding Quotations

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.

One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

My favourite character would have to be 'Ash,' because I love my brooding bad boys. But a certain snarky talking cat runs a very close second.

I'm a pretty upbeat person. I think I sometimes get cast as these brooding types because I bring light and joy, which hopefully makes them more likable.

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

For 'Fright Night,' we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as a predator. He's not a brooding vampire - he's dark and dangerous.

I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

Superman isn't moody or brooding or aggressive ...

I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.